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Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§277d–18 Construction, Operation, and Maintenance of Works; Bridge of the Americas

Title 22 › CHAPTER 7 — INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC. › SUBCHAPTER IV — INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION › § 277d–18

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The U.S. Commissioner can build, run, and take care of the works named in the convention and in sections 277d–17 to 277d–25. He can give the job of operating and maintaining those works to another federal agency or to state or local governments on terms he sets. He may accept public or private payments from the U.S. or Mexico to help pay for operating, maintaining, and replacing the Bridge of the Americas over the Rio Grande between El Paso, Texas, and Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua. Those payments go to the Commission’s available appropriation, can be used only to replace that bridge, and only when appropriation Acts provide the money in advance.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §277d–18

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(a)In general
The United States Commissioner is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain all works provided for in said convention and sections 277d–17 to 277d–25 of this title, and to turn over the operation and maintenance of any such works to any Federal agency, or any State, county, municipality, district, or other political subdivision within which such project or works may be in whole or in part situated, upon such terms, conditions, and requirements as the Commissioner may deem appropriate.
(b)Bridge of the Americas
The United States Commissioner is authorized to receive payments of money from public or private sources in the United States or Mexico made for the purpose of sharing in the cost of operations, maintenance, and replacement of the Bridge of the Americas which crosses the Rio Grande between El Paso, Texas, and Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, such payments of money shall be credited to any appropriation to the Commission which is currently available. Funds received under this subsection shall be available only for the replacement of such bridge.
(c)Advance appropriations
The authority of subsection (b) may be exercised only to the extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriation Acts.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1999—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 106–113 inserted “operations, maintenance, and” after “cost of”. 1994—Pub. L. 103–236 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsecs. (b) and (c).

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 277d–18

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110